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    CAPTAIN BEEFHEART, SHERLOCK HOLMES AND BANKSY. VENDORS SHARE THEIR CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS

    Mar 06, 2023 7 minutes

    BRIDGETTE SIBLEY

    Waitrose, Southsea, Portsmouth

    I was so thankful for The Big Issue’s support during lockdowns. They got me jigsaws while I was off my pitch. That’s my hobby – it’s so therapeutic. It’s the only time I really relax – 1,000 pieces are just right. I can knock a jigsaw out in two days if it’s a weekend or I’m not selling The Big Issue.

    STEWART

    M&S, Dundee

    Cookbooks are actually one of my favourite things to read as I love cooking in my spare time. I like to watch war documentaries more than anything, I just love learning about the history. My favourite band is Iron Maiden and I’ve been listening to them since I was a kid.

    ANDRÉ ROSTANT

    Carnaby St, Soho, London

    Best book: Moby Dick. It goes from the minutiae of day-to-day living, to cosmological and metaphysical philosophy, sometimes within one sentence. It captures, better than anything I have read, something of humanity’s unique place in nature and the ironic transcendence of spirituality, which it reveals to be a function of nature. It is magical.

    – a movie from the 1950s about jealousy and vanity, and the recent movie, , about estrangement from friends

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